Rigid shrub to 0.8 m tall; branchlets densely clothed with spreading hairs. Leaves digitately 5-7-foliolate, sessile; stipules narrowly triangular or subulate, persistent. Leaflets narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate-oblong, folded lengthwise and deeply channelled above or U-shaped in section, sometimes almost conduplicate, rigid; lower surface sparingly to densely clothed with uncinate and/or straight hairs; central leaflet largest, 1.2-2.8 cm long, 1-3.5 mm wide; lateral leaflets 0.7-2.1 cm long, 1-2 mm wide. Flowers mostly in pairs, shorter than the leaves. Sepals 5; outer two 7.8-8.5 mm long, 2.6-3.5 mm wide, densely clothed with spreading hairs. Petals 4. Anthers unequal; short anther 3.6-3.9 mm long; long anther 5.5-6 mm long. Pod (only immature pods and old twisted dehisced valves seen) 1.7-2.2 cm long, 8-10 mm wide. Seeds not seen.
Between Anketell and Sandstone it is found in red sand with mallee Eucalyptus spp. and other myrtaceous, proteaceous and solanaceous shrubs, and to the west of Yokradine Hills it grows in yellow sand with Hakea , Grevillea and Acacia spp.
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